International Women's Day 2025: Exhibitions and events spotlight women's art and activism globally
International Women's Day 2025 will showcase worldwide exhibitions that celebrate women's artistic achievements and their fight for gender equality. At Fotomuseum Den Haag, the exhibit 'I'm So Happy You Are Here' features 26 Japanese women photographers and will be available until 5 May. On 8 March, the Royal Albert Hall marks its 15th anniversary with activist Angela Davis. Kunsthalle Wien presents 'Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991' until 25 May, highlighting fifty digital artists. From 17 April to 31 August, Palazzo Strozzi hosts 'Time for Women!', showcasing nine former Max Mara Art Prize winners. The National Museum of Women in the Arts will explore feminist art until 10 August. Additionally, events like 'HighlightHer' in London and 'Women in Revolt!' in Manchester will take place. Currently, only 13.7% of living artists in Europe and North America are women. The inaugural International Women's Day in 1911 attracted over one million participants.
Key facts
- International Women's Day 2025 features over a dozen exhibitions and events worldwide highlighting women's art
- Only 13.7% of living artists represented by galleries in Europe and North America are women
- From 2008 to 2020, just 14.9% of exhibitions at 31 major US galleries featured female artists
- The first International Women's Day in 1911 attracted over one million people across four European countries
- Rachel Whiteread became the first female Turner Prize winner in 1993, followed by Lubaina Himid as first woman of color in 2017
- The Max Mara Art Prize for Women marks its 20th anniversary with a Florence exhibition featuring nine former winners
- Kunsthalle Wien's 'Radical Software' showcases fifty pioneering women in digital art from 1960-1991
- The Women of the World Foundation celebrates 15 years with activist Angela Davis at London's Royal Albert Hall
Entities
Artists
- Judy Chicago
- Sojourner Truth
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Virginia Woolf
- Susan B. Anthony
- Rachel Whiteread
- Lubaina Himid
- Ushiado Tokuko
- Yanagi Miwa
- Okabe Momo
- Angela Davis
- Alison Knowles
- Lilian Lijn
- Sonya Rapoport
- Barbara Kruger
- Margaret Salmon
- Emma Hart
- Gillian Wearing
- Justine Kurland
- Mary Ellen Mark
- Meret Oppenheim
- Hanna Benihoud
- Sarah Cooper
- Nina Gorfer
- Aziza Kadryi
- Kinsi Abdulleh
- Holly Searle
- Cristina de Middel
- Susan Meiselas
- Sabiha Çimen
- Robert Capa
- Linda Nochlin
- Gretchen Bender
- Gina Birch
- America Ferrera
- Sigmund Freud
- Jordan Peele
Institutions
- Aesthetica Magazine
- Fotomuseum Den Haag
- Women of the World Foundation
- Royal Albert Hall
- Kunsthalle Wien
- Palazzo Strozzi
- Max Mara Art Prize
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- The Whitworth
- BFI Southbank
- Reclaim the Frame
- Birds' Eye View Film Festival
- CODA
- Croydon Council
- Croydon Arts Programme
- The Wendy Project
- Kunsthal Helmond
- Magnum Photos
- Kunsthalle Bremen
- Aperture
- Sprüth Magers
- Mitchell-Innes & Nash
- Guerrilla Girls
Locations
- Austria
- Denmark
- Germany
- Switzerland
- New York City
- Europe
- North America
- United States
- Japan
- The Hague
- Netherlands
- London
- United Kingdom
- Vienna
- Florence
- Italy
- Washington DC
- Manchester
- Granary Square
- Apeldoorn
- Croydon
- Helmond
- Bremen
- Zambia
- New England
- Turkey
- Central Asia
- Africa
- Istanbul